Water and gas chemistry at Lake Kivu (DRC): Geochemical evidence of vertical and horizontal heterogeneities in a multibasin structure

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Tassi, F ^a   Vaselli, O ^a,b   Tedesco, D ^c,d   Montegrossi, G ^b   Darrah, T ^e   Cuoco, E ^c   Mapendano, M Y ^f   Poreda, R ^e   Huertas, A Delgado ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^d Palais de Nations   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f Goma Volcano Observatory   (Congo)

^g CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geochemical modeling; Lake Kivu; Lake water geochemistry; Limnic eruption

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949128369     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002191     Document Type: Article

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